NGC 6607
NGC 6607
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
316 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 316 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6607 as it looked roughly 316 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
NGC 6608Spiral1,000,000 ly
apartNGC 6617Spiral1.5 million ly
apartNGC 6562Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 6436Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 6491Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6393Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6617Spiral1.5 million ly
apartNGC 6562Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 6436Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 6491Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6393Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).